- Growers for Tobacco Compacts, But Ask Allotment Safeguards Leaders Framing Sup plementary Provision To Protect Small Pro ducers Raleigh, Jan. 12.?Three thouimd North Carolina farmers surged into Memorial Ahditorium yesterday to advise the joint House and Senate Agriculture Committee that the pend ing Tobacco Compact Rill should be enacted immediately but that admin istrative features of the measure should be amended. The joint committee will meet today at 2:30 o'clock to take action on the bill. - Indications are that the bill will be reported favorably with the probability of a supple mentary measure being passed later to cover administrative details with in the State. Expression from farmers at the public hearing yesterday was di vided into two distinct schools of thought, one favoring immediate passage of the bill as drafted and the other decrying apparent in equalities of allotments, particular ly those affecting small farms. The wide breach of thought was evi denced when a motion for immedi ate adoption met with a chorus of piercing "no's" from the gather ing. On the side of farmers asking for adoption as the bill now stands were C. T. Hall, chairman of the advisory! committee and E. Y. Floyd, State | College tobacco specialist. Those joining with the cry for amendment included Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, and Harry B. Caldwell, lecturer of the State Grange. Fanners representing every sec tion of the State took the floor to address the committees, which sat from 2:30 unil 5:45 to hear them. As the hearing adjourned, Rev. N. J. Todd, Baptist minister of Person County, offered a motion that the farmers assembled recommended en actment as the bill now stands. Two thirds of the farmers had left, but a scattered chorus of dissenting votes manifested the remaining objection. At a conference last night several leaden in crop control attempted to iron out differences of opinion on proposed compact amendments. Fur ther conferences wjil be held to for mulate a harmonious proposal to be offered the agriculture committees. Among the conferees last night were John W. Goodman, assistant agricul ture extension director; Jonathan Daniels, editor of The News and Obaerver; Marry B. Caldwell, State Grange lecturer; J. E. Winslow and E. H. Arnold, president and secretary of the State Farm Bureau respective ly; Bruce Sugg, Greenville ware houseman; C. T. Hall, tobacco ad visory chairman; Clarence Poe, 'edi tor of the Progressive Farmer; and J. a Eagles, Senator from Wilson Yesterday's hearing was neither mm well attended or as stormy as the meeting of farmers in the State College Stadium last spring. Then Governor Ehringhaus was urged, unsuccessfully, to call a special ses sion for the adoption of compact legislation. Called by the joint agriculture committees of the General Assem bly for 2:30 o'clock in the Hall of the House, the public hearing on the Tobacco Compact BiH was mov ed to the Memorial Auditorium after $ became apparent that the crowd could not be packed into the House meeting chamber. With aa interest vital enough to draw them from remote sections of the State, farmers began to gath . er about tire Capitol early yester day morning, huddling in small groups on the Capitol grounds while a misty rain threatened to drive them inside. An hour before the . hearing convened, the Hall of the House was packed to capacity and growers were converging upon the Capitol in increasing numbers. Representative W. E. Fenner of Nash, chairman of the House Agri culture Committee, appeared in the House, at S o'clock and made the! ?amumi'inimt that, the meeting pteoa had been transferred to Me morial Auditorium. The body troop viBe Street to fill the dty audito rieufcuf* committee, the^ Tobacco tirety. CfcrijGoereh read the MB. E. Y. FMpdt State College tobacco specialist, explained the bill and answered gasatiims directed at him visory eamoifiKee .would, have itj I ? II - I .. ???_. of 1934 that tobacco growers want ed compulsory control. The com pact is the nearest thing to com pulsory control." "The compact," he said, "fits like a glove into the soil conservation program. It replaces the Kerr-Smith act, and payments from soil con servation compliance replace old AAA benefits. The measure as draft ed met the unanimous approval of the North Carolina Tobacco Advis ory Committee, the advisory com mittees of other states and the ad ministration at Washington, and was adjudged practicable by attor ney general of the various states," With the group favoring its en actment without change was C. T. Hall, chairman of the advisory committee. He said, "It is the best bill that can be worked out at this time. Objection all along has been the contention that something must be worked out for the little man. These can be worked out by the committeemen. Dissatisfaction under the AAA was due largely to; the fault of the county committee-! men. You elect your committee men, and those committeemen can consult with you on the details of adjustment. There may be penal ties, yes; but those penalties leave him in just as good condition as he would be without any control." Expressing the opposite view was Harry B. Caldwell, State Grange lecturer. Caldwell pledged the Grange to support control, but, he said, "with adequate protection for the small growers of North Caro lina." Caldwell said he was not content to leave adjustment to a commis sion. "We must consider the man who before 1935 reduced his crop voluntarily. You all know the com mission will be subject to tempta tion. Their friends will bring: pres sure upon them for special consid eration and benefits. By nature we are prone to show favoritism to our friends. The Grange contends the compact should put adequate protection for the little man into the bill. If he can plant three or four acres, why not put it into the bill?" Dr. J. Y. Joyner of LaGrange took the position that the bill could be amended profitably. He said "We are facing a situation similar fo that of 1933. We must get together. Dissension is our fault. We are all together on the need of controlled production but we differ in the means of accomplishing it The writers of the bill think they have taken care of the little farmer. Child In Green Crushed By Bee Officials Say School Bus Fatality Unavoidable;' Second in Week Snow Hill, Jan. 18.?Charlie Bea man, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Beaman of Greene Coun ty, was run over and crushed to death by a Greene County y school bus driven by a schoolboy 4near here this morning. Officials* said the killing was "unavoidable." It was the second "unavoidable" killing of a child by school busses in Eastern North Carolina within a week. Last week, eight-year-old Doris Hughes of Merry Hill died when she was run over by a Bertie County school bus. Bertie officials, without a forma? investigation, found the accident "unavoidable." Greene Accident. The Beaman child was killed in front of his home near here.' The bus, driven by Harvey Jones, had stopped to pick up some children. Three-year-old Charlie toddled in front of the bus as it was loaded and Jones, moving off, apparently could not see the boy because he was so small. The little tot was bad ly mangled as the bus passed over him. Coroner F. A. Mosely of Snow Hill investigated the accident and re ported to Greene County school au thorities that it was "unavoidable." Sheriff H. K. Cobb, concuring in the report, said as far as he knew, this waa the first Greene County school bos fatality. * CIGARETTES UP New York, Jan. 19. ? Cigarette prices were today boosted 15 cents s thousand by manufacturers and re tailers indicated the advance would be passed on to smokers, starting next Monday. PT~i the New York metropolitan area, *a said, the present retail quota \ of 18 cents a package or twc a quarter for popular brands iiwsukl give way to M cents, or twt . for 27. Similar advances would be made in other sections, It was thought. Cartons and tins of 60a will be proportionately boosted. ' Announcement of the rise came from Liggett k Myers Co., R. J. Reynolds Co., and P. Lorillard Co. The new price is $6.25 per thousand, less usual^trade discounts. American Tobacco Co., the other member of the "Big Four" had not disclosed its intentions up to the doee of business, but tobacco circles expected the com pany would fall in line. While the companies gave no ex planation, . said the advance was due to increased costs! ot leaf tobacco and other matrials. Rumors of a rise had been heard 'for some time. >-iThe in the wholesale urice was the first change since January, 1934, when it was nlsed from $6.60 to $6.10 a thousand,' culminating a S price war. ? . . ? _ y - ~j_ -George Spivey, a member of the , -Kenly 4-H club in Johnston County, - has ordered: 800 baby chicks for his > brooder project this spring. He clear , ed exactly $97 on 800 broSera last >| season. Important Task Sinn Tar Heel ? " " - ; J } i Congressman Warren Made Member of Gov ernmental Reorganiza tion Committee Washington, Jan. 19.?Representa tive Lindsay C. Warren, of the First North Carolina District, was today made a member of the Special House Committee cm Reorganisation of the Federal Government, a committee which is expected to be by far the most important at this session of Congress. The sweeping proposals of Presi dent Roosevelt for reorganisation of the Federal government have al ready encountered formidable oppo sition and the question is by far the most controversial of any in prospect for consideration at this ses sion. The House today got the jump on the Senate when Speaker W. B. Bankhead appointed the members of the House committee without wait ing for Senate action on the reso lution creating a joint committee, of which the seven members of the House committee appointed today House automatically become mem bers. The personnel of the House com mittee is considered unusually strong from the standpoint of abil ity as well as a body on which the administration can rely for favora ble action. The committee is headed by Rep resentative Buchanan of Texas, chairman of the House Appropria tions Committee. Representative Cochran of Missouri, chairman of the House Committee on Expendi tures in the Executive Departments, is next in rank, with Representative Warren, who is chairman of the House Committee on Accounts, third in rank. The other two Democratic members are Vinson of Kentucky, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, and Robinson of Utah, a member of several minor commit tees. The two minority members are Tabor of New York and Gifford of Massachusetts, ranking Republican member of the Committees on Ap propriations and Expenditures, re spectively. Man Forging Money Orders Merchants and Bankers Warned TofBe On Watchout The office of inspector in charge of the Atlanta office has sent out warnings to merchants and bankers to be on the look-out for stolen money orders printed for Lakeland, Fla., station three, and bearing se rials numbers ? from 8115 to 8200 inclusive. ' The advice said that the orders, usually filled out for amounts from $25 to $50, are being presented to merchants in- payments ior small purchases. - ... The man so far presenting them is described as follows: About 3Q years old; five feet, 10 inches tall; neat apparance; light complexion; soft pleasant voice. The forged orders will most like ly bear the rubber stamp impres sion "J. D. Beggs, postmaster." This is the name of the postmaster at Orlando, Fla., and the name stamp was stolen. The advices asks that if any of the forged money orders are pre sented, the person tendering them be held and the local postmaster notified. ? M I ? I ...I..a ? .. ? -v i j i ABOUT REORGANIZATION / PLAN MEETS CRITICISM DOES IT MEAN ECONOMYT DEMOCRATIC PROBLEMS CONGRESS MAT WANT MORE BATTLESHIPS BEGIN BUDGET PROSPECT CONTROLLING FACTORS WARNING TO COURTS, (By Hugo Sims, Washington Correspondent) The president has submitted to Congress a program of govern mental reorganisation that is cer tain to be the subject of prolonged discussion. The essential parts of the plan relate to the regrouping of independent agencies, number ing 100, under twelve departments, which include ten now represented in the Cabinet and the addition of two others, to handle Social Welfare and Public Works. Six executive as sistants to the President would re lieve him of detail work and be his confidential representatives. The entire administrative service, excepting only policy-determining positions, would be under a revised civil service and all agencies would be under the President except those having semi-judicial powers. The present office of Controller General would be abolished and its auditing duties confined to a post-audit of executive expenditures. Any judicial' functions, relating to legal questions! of expenditure, would devolve upon the Attorney General. The Budget Bureau would become an oflce man ager for the entire establishment, combining present jobs with more research and planning. This rough outline is nothing more. It does not attempt to give a com plete presentation of the proposal submitted by the President or his argument in support However, there is emphasis upon the indepent nature of many present boards and com missions, virtually under no control except the courts, and insistence that as they belong to the executive branch of the Government they should be under the President's con trol. Otherwise, it is pointed out, there will continue to develop a "fourth branch" of the government "not responsible administratively either to the President to the Con gress, or to theCourts." Comment in Congress was varied. It is not easy to persuade Senators and Congressmen to yield some of their patronage rights and, under the new setup, which would extend the merit system "upward, outward and downward," the whole matter of personnel would be turned over to an officer, directly responsible to the President and under Hie supervision of a citizen board. The members of Congress would neither have the re sponsibility or the power to ratify many minor appointments as has been the custom for years.' This would be turned over to the depart ment heads and administrative merit and competence would be the sole standard for selection. There is not much in the Presi dent's report that suggests economy, or the abolition of useless agenciea Whether this would result under the continuing reorganization power, or' not, remains to be semi when the plan is in effect. Perhaps, it was wise not to be specific in regards to anything along this line in order to avoid trouble with the affScted per sonnel. - However, some of the criti cism directed against the plan re lates to an absence of any assured savings and Senator Byrd, chairman of the Senate committee, insists that "hundreds of millions of dollars can be saved by courageous and prompt action without impairing legislative objectives." It is important, we think, to under stand that the reorganization pro posed does not take from Congress any power to legislate and because Congress retains the purse strings it will also retain final control of the government The plan does give to the executive the responsibility of his branch of the government and the power to do his administrative Work, which is what the. Constitution Intended. The economy that is aim ed at can be secttfed as easily under the set-up ss under present condi tions because an act of Congress can abolish almost soy agency and cut down its costs. PVfeads of the new flan insist that it ii>~Uota question of "power and no power": for the President but rather one of "respon sible power and irresponsible power." f Strange aa~ it- seSips, - Democratic waders aire not too" pleased with the 4bp-fceavy majorities 4hat 'the party enjoys. They are ndtr Worried about mEE&&3&?S3 (-wntinued on page four) ? ? _. ? fSSjw Negro Chauffeur Held In Jail After Car Strikes Wagon Greenville, Jan. 20. ? A Negro chauffeur is being held in jail, a seven-year-old' boy is in Pitt General Hospital and his father and two brothers are suffering less se vere injuries as a result of an auto mobile-wa^on wreck on the Farm ville highway just beyond Allen's Cross Roads late Tuesday. ? W. E. Nobles, 86-year-old fanner who lives near the scene of the; wreck, and his three children were injured in the accident. Freeman Fleming, Negro employed by Nobles was not injured. Julius D. Dixon, 21-year-old Ne gro, is being held pending the con dition of Joseph Smith Nobles, sev en-year-old boy, who suffered the most severe injuries. The ^Negro was driving for George Lee Melville, State representative for the Sterling Company of Chicago. Neither Mel ville nor his chaufeur were injured. Nobles suffered a sprained ankle and bruised back; a nine-year-old boy, Odell Nobles, had his face lace rated and several teeth knocked ont; Louis Nobles, 12 suffered a lacerated knee, a bad gash having been cut at the joint. Joseph Nobles, who suffered the worst injuries, was said to have been run over by a wagon wheel. He also is suffering from severe shock, and possible internal in juries. Corporal L. L. Jackson, who in vestigated the accident, said the Negro driver started to pass the wagon, but pulled back when he met a car. After the car passed, he said, the driver started around the wagon, drove too close and struck the left rear wheel. The mules be came excited, he added, and ran away, throwing Nobles and his chil dren from the vehicle. Both the wagon and the automobile were com ing toward Greenville when the ac cident occurred, near Sutton's filling station. * Lawyer-Bandit SmtTo Prison John Denton, Pitt At torney, Gets Three Years For Filling Sta tion Hold-Up Greenville, Jan. 20.?John B. Den ton, Greenville and Ayden attorney and former solicitor for the city court of the latter place, was sen tenred to three years in prison by Judge E. H. Cranmer in Pitt County Superior Court Wednesday after noon. Denton was convicted of hold ing up a filling station. Denton also was deprived of. his license to practice law, and the judgment of the court was that notices be sent forthwith to the secreary of the State Bar Association and the clerk of the Supreme Court John G. Dawson of Kinston mem ber of the defense counsel, made a plea for the convicted man before sentence was passed, asking Judge Cranmer to be as lenient as possible. He said that he felt that Denton al ready was a reformed man and leniency would mean much to him, his wife and his children. Judge Albion Dunn, private pros ecutor, said that he felt his duty was completed with his closing argu ment to the jury Tuesday. He added that he regretted as much as anyone that a member of the legal profes sion should find himself in such cir cumstances. 1 ? - * ? * a Jt.! X Asked it ne naa anyuung vu ??y, the defendant rose and with tears in his eyes said: "I know I have done Wxong in my life, bat I stand before your honor and say that I am not guilty of the crime for which I have been convicted." Judge Cranmer then prefaced his judgment with a few remarks & which he quoted from the Bible a verse saying that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Denton was convicted of robbing the Jasper Harrington filling station near Ayden last June 9 when ? brother of the operator was draining the pumps preparatory to closing the place. He was subsequently given a pre liminary hearing before Magistrate John Ivey Smith here and bound over to SupeiW Court v The jury was given the case lata Tuesday and deliberated about an hour and a half before a verdict was reached. Two full days wezSe taken in trying1 the case. Four farmers of Cumberland Coun ty kwa set aside parts of tb*r farm woodlands to be used for tree thin ning and planting demonstrations. ? ? - ? - Washinaton vwusmnyiun Farm News ? WHAT LIES AHEAD? PLAN IMPROVEMENTS. SUPERVISED LOANS. WALLACE GIVES VIEWS. (Special Washington Corre What has 1987 in store for Ameri can farmers? TMa is a question that no man can answer because of factors ob viously beyond the control of hnman beings. The weather may be propi tious, the crops may look good and then, at a swoop, a drought or local catastrophe change the complexion of the particular farmer's outlook. Then again there is the troublesome ques tion of prices for farm products? what will the yield bring when it is time to sell? Nobody knows. Facing these uncertain issues the average farmer can do some things to help himself. He can plan a balanced farm program, one looking a few years ahead and making provision for immediate needs as far ae possible. It is not a good idea for any tiller of the soil to gamble on one single crop if there is any way to avoid doing so. .Food and feeds should be grown aa far as possible and side crops planned to supplement the main crops. During 1937 every farmer should take cognizance of the growing trend to rural electricity and do his part to secure such convenience for his fami ly if there is not a high power line available for service. The REA will be able to advise any group of farm ers as to the methods through which electric service can be secured. The farmers of the nation should also take some thought, during 1937, to modernizing their homes. Many have already done so but there are entirely too many fanners who still neglect such essential home services as the water supply, sewerage dis posal and other like problems that, in the past, have been to one side of the main undertaking. ' Some definite improvement should be planned for each year. If finances do not permit a major advance, then by all means undertake something within scope of the pocketbook. It will be surprising how rapidly a farm can be improved if the owner puts a little thought and some work on the job. Secretary Wallace expresses his ideas about what the Rural Resettle ment administration should be doing, stressing the supervised loan pro giam which has aided 800,000 farm families in 1936 rather than the at tempted suburban housing projects. He thinks the name is ill-chosen be cause it suggests that families are to be "picked up here and moved over there" which was never contemplat ed. The primary objective is the secur ity of the two-thirds of our farmers who are at the bottom of the pile. They are being loaned money at five per cent, assisted by guidance from supervisors, and helped to bet ter themselves. The money is not being given away. The Secretary admits that ten or fifteen per cent of the men have a bad attitude with respect to repayment and comments grimly, they "must be got rid of." Answering the question why the government should attempt anything for these people, Mr. Wallace says there are just as many farm people unemployed in proportion to popula tion as there is in the cities and, secondly, the government itself is, to a considerable extent, responsible for these farmers being in such un usual trouble. He thinks that, perhaps, the supervised loan policy of the Reset tlement Administration may be the best means of apprt aching the ten ancy problem. Mat. tenants do not have the training to take care of farm property but they can be start ed upward through assistance and then, if they have the capacity, be come landowners, partly through their own efforts and Savings. Mr. Wallace refers to the children of these ttaants who deserve to be properly fed, properly trained and given adequate protection against disease and insists, in all fairness, that the government should give some of the power of its scientific research aid its educational tmtSB tfes to "teake sure thai they have a chance.*: , '*:?" '-n'A ? j *i i ?? -p- ? LION MAtJi* DANCER Baltimore.?Gladys Cote, young girl dancer, who was mottled by a Hen during a theatre pwforaahee, died of gas gangrene, sMdlatively t* faction caused, it la thought, I? ?';ii 4. 'ii; w -'-' Offers rr o tection Washington, Jan. 2a ? President Franklin D. Roosevelt formally open ? iLf ^ ft rfhrm it Wjllutttt - * A-^''4d? ml second aainmistration today with a demand for more and strong er government consecrated to "pro vide enough for those who have too little." In militant phrases which left specific details to the future, he spoke to a rain-drenched, attentive crowd on the capitol plaza of the need for government "to solve Hor the individual the everrising prob lems of a complex civilization" and to control "bind economic forces and bHndly selfish men." Moments before, in words repeated solemnly after Cheif Justice Hughes the President had taken his oath of office and been cheered -with a warmth that belied the cold, forbid ding day. For once "Roosevelt weather lock" did not hold. Gusts of rain blew into Mr. Roose velt's face. He stood bareheaded, looking out now and again over the blade mass of umbrellas which con fronted him. Nearby sat the newiy swern Vice President Gamer, mem bers of their families, justices of the Supreme Court, members of the Congress and the diplomalia corps. The oath-taking completed consti tutional inaugural requirements. But ahead lay festivities customary to the quadrennial ceremony. Returning to the White House fcr them, Mr. Roosevelt choose an opsin car despite the rain. After a buffet luncheon for party officials and visiting dignitaries at the White House, the President's place was in "The Hermitage"?-a re production of "Old Hickory" Jack son's home in Tennessee?fronting the White House. A spirit of "the parade must go on" enlivened the numerous parties of governors, the ranks of the West Point and Annapolis officers-to-be, companies from the Civilian Conser vation Corps trim in khaki and the military units of marchers. Their route lay from the capitol, along Pennsylvania Avenue which has seen the inaugural parades since 1801 and by the presidential reviewing stand. Extolling democracy dn his ad dress, but making no mention of dictatorships abroad, Mr. Roosevelt said the American method had been made more powerful in the last four years. "Wot we have begun," he said with deliberation that emphasized a be ginning, "to bring private autocratic powers in their proper subordination to public government." ; ? MORE TOBACCO Raleigh, Jan. 20.?A good year for flue-cured and burley tobacco growers is foreseen if production can be held in line with consumption. W. G. Finn, assistant director of the AAA east central region, said yesterday. Surplus tobacco stocks have been eliminated and consumption is going up, he told farmers attending the tobacco short course at State Col lege this week. Prices next fall will depend main ly on the size of the 1887 crop, he went on. An excess production could I easily beat prices down to former I low levels, he warned. ? Anticipating a greater consump- 1 tion this year, he said tobacco acre age could be expanded slightly, but added he believed fanners are going to try to increase their acreage more than present conditions justify. The 15,000,000,000 cigarettes smok ed in the United States last year set a new record for annual consumption, Finn also stated, but an even larger number is expected to be sold in 1937. Foreign consumption is also in creasing, but ao is foreign production, Finn stated, and exports from this country are expected to remain at about the same, level.' \ \ i Campaign expenditures reveal that the Communist party paid abort 9100 for every vote its candidate for Pres ident received. Other partiei spent the following sums.per vote: Repub licans, 45 cents; Democrats, 121-1^.. crate- 3ocielhte, 11 crate. NO_SEAKB.UP Growing prevalence of reports thai the cabinet would be ahalma np aa r the new term of President begins has TJ- 1. w 'x..._tl> ? _n- . caused tne worn to oe passed around ?., that no such dervelopms^T Is ejected.